Samuelson Certified by American Board of Integrative and Holistic Medicine

Dr. Joshua Samuelson, a physician at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) Northshire Campus, recently received certification as a Diplomate of the American Board of Integrative and Holistic Medicine (ABIHM). Being certified in integrative and holistic medicine offers patients a blended approach between conventional and integrative holistic medicine.

"Integrative and holistic services expand the services SVMC Northshire campus can provide its community," stated Dr. Samuelson. "I am pleased to be able to offer integrative and holistic medical services as an American Board certified physician by those patients who seek additional care and treatments."

To be certified by the ABIHM, Dr. Samuelson was required to meet comprehensive, peer-review as well as psychometrically validated standards for knowledge in complementary, integrative, and holistic medicine. Dr. Samuelson joined the Northshire Campus of Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) in 2009. He received his medical degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his residency at Christiana Care Hospital in Wilmington, Del.

The American Board of Holistic Medicine was founded in 1996 and officially changed its name to the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine in 2008. The Vision of the ABIHM is to establish and maintain the highest standards of medical care, ignite and sustain the joy and passion of physicians in their work, establish the role of unconditional love as the basis of healing and support, and to recognize the importance of the health of the planet as integral to human health. Visit www.abihm.org to learn more.

The SVMC Northshire Campus is a department of Southwestern Vermont Medical Center the flagship of Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC), a non-profit, integrated health system serving communities in Vermont, New York, and Massachusetts. SVHC also includes the VNA and Hospice of SVHC, the Centers for Living & Rehabilitation, the SVMC Northshire and Deerfield Valley Campuses, and Southwestern Vermont Regional Cancer Center. Southwestern Vermont Medical Center is Vermont’s first Magnet hospital for nursing excellence and home to the region's only breast care program fully accredited by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers. Physician services at the SVMC Northshire Campus are provided by Dartmouth-Hitchcock.

DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK is a national leader in patient-centered health care and building a sustainable health system. Founded in 1893, the system includes New Hampshire’s only Level 1 trauma center and its only air ambulance service, as well as the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, one of only 40 National Center Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in the nation, and the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, the state’s only Children’s Hospital Association-approved, comprehensive, full-service children's hospital. As an academic medical center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock provides access to nearly 1,000 primary care doctors and specialists in almost every area of medicine, as well as world-class research at the Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.